MacKSolo Team Update - Day 59 🌍 ✈️
Mack landed in the spice island of #Zanzibar, #Tanzania yesterday! Wooohooo. This is his 4th African country and he has now reached the the warm, blue waters of the #IndianOcean.
Today was a well-deserved rest-day for him and Sharky, who was booked in for some maintenance work.
The position of Zanzibar, just as for Mack, made this archipelago a favorable base for traders voyaging between #Africa, Arabia, and India. These three cultures shaped Zanzibar's history, traditions, food and language. Because of the traders’ need to communicate with the natives, a new language emerged which combined Arabic, Persian, English, and Swahili.
Zanzibar is one of the main archipelagoes of Tanzania, and the name Zanzibar comes from the Arabic Zanjibār and Persian Zang-bār. It combines the words Zang (“Black“) + bār (“coast, land, country“). Zanzibar is also called "Coast of Black". It has seen the rule of the Portuguese, the Sultanate of Oman and the British Empire, till it became a consitutional monarchy and is now a semi-autonomous region of Tanzania.
It is from this cultural melting-pot that Mack will be taking off for his first long oversea-leg to #Madagascar. Depending on the prevailing winds, the flight will last more than 7 hours, of which about 6 over water.
Safari Njema Mack! 🙏🤞✈️ And please, everyone, a little dance around the fire 🔥 🕺🪘to keep Mack and Sharky 🦈 safe during their flight tomorrow!
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